2 flyers, pregnant woman test +ve

Coimbatore: Three people, one of them a pregnant woman, tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the district on Wednesday. While two of them are flyers from Chennai, the third one is a local resident.
In the case of the flyers - a 24-year-old woman from RS Puram and a 34-year-old business traveller - their samples were collected on Tuesday when they landed in the city airport. They have been admitted to private hospitals.
The indigenous case is the pregnant woman. The 25-year-old resident of Kovaipudur is the third one to test positive from the district in the current wave. She doesn’t have a travel history and any known contact with a positive case.
A health department official said the woman was tested for Covid-19 when she approached a private hospital to get admitted for delivery. She has been shifted to the ESI Hospital.
G Ramesh Kumar, deputy director of public health, said, “The patient is asymptomatic and stable. Her husband is a cop who is deployed at Walayar check post. We have collected samples from him, other close family members and neighbours. There are around 12 houses in and around her residence.”
The other two indigenous cases comprise a 24-year-old doctor from Malumichampatty and 49-year-old cancer patient from Podanur. Officials are trying to trace their source of infection and, trace and isolate all their immediate contacts to curb the spread.
The official said they were testing the contacts of the Podanur man. “We have drawn 70 samples on day one and asked officials to test 100 others on Wednesday. We will continue to screen people in the area, since Podanur has been problematic for a long time now.”
The official said 49 Covid-19 patients were undergoing treatment in the district - 35 in the ESI Hospital, 11 in the PSG Hospitals and three in the Royal Care Super Speciality Hospital.